What do French people think about defense spending?
Force axis · 🇫🇷 France · measured continuously, published only above 100 responses.
No published French reading yet. DataRadio holds 75 French answers on this question and publishes a nation only at 100, so the honest answer today is that we do not know — 25 more answers are needed. The world reading is below, and it takes about a minute to make this page say something.
Where France sits on force
What is measured about France on this axis. These are facts about the country, not what its people think about them — that is the part of this page waiting on a sample.
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Military spending
SIPRI · 2024
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2.1% |
somewhat above the middle
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Armed forces personnel
IISS Military Balance · 2020
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304,000 |
higher than most countries
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Tax revenue
IMF Government Finance Statistics · 2024
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22.8% |
higher than most countries
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Income per person
World Bank / ICP · 2025
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$55,124 |
higher than most countries
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Ranked against every country with a published figure for the same series. Sources: World Bank World Development Indicators, which republish UN, ILO, UNESCO, WHO, SIPRI, IISS and UNODC data.
The questions that bear on defense spending
Asked as a forced choice between two written positions, in randomised order, with the sides flipped for half of respondents.
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A · We already spend enough, or too much, on our armed forces.
B · We should spend more on our armed forces.
World, unweighted: 41% A ·
21% neither ·
38% B · n = 3896
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🇫🇷 n=75 of 100 |
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A · Money spent on arms would do more good spent on helping poor countries.
B · Spending on arms buys the safety that everything else rests on.
World, unweighted: 43% A ·
24% neither ·
33% B · n = 3902
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🇫🇷 n=68 of 100 |
A national figure appears only once that nation clears 100 responses on the question. The world column is a raw count of every answer received and is not post-stratified — it is shown because withholding it would say less, not more.
Asked another way
The same question, as people put it.
- France public opinion on defense spending
- Defense spending poll france
- What do french people think about defense spending
- What percentage of french people support defense spending
Each has one answer on this page, and it is the same answer.